CORRECTION:The story below, originally published on Friday March 13, wrongly characterized the actions of Bronx prosecutors in the case against a police officer accused in the fatal shooting of a man outside his home. Officer Rafael Lora still faces a first-degree manslaughter charge and may serve prison time if he is convicted.

An off-duty cop on trial for shooting an unarmed drunken driver in the Bronx won't get jail time after prosecutors reduced charges against him.

Rafael Lora, 38, is charged with fatally shooting Fermin Arzu near his Bronx home on May 18, 2007. Arzu, 41, had just crashed his minivan into a parked car outside Lora's home.

Prosecutors had charged Lora with first-degree manslaughter, which carries a five- to 25-year sentence. Wednesday, charges were reduced to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Lora now faces up to 11 years on probation, if convicted.

The charges were lowered after Lora, a Manhattan traffic cop, took the stand Wednesday in the bench trial before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy. He recounted hearing a crash outside his Longwood home just before midnight.

Lora said he grabbed his personal firearm, a Glock 26, and went outside to see what was going on.

"I saw a dark colored minivan with steam coming out of it," he said.

Lora said he identified himself as a police officer and opened the passenger door. He said Arzu reached over to the glove box, then hit him in the face with an unidentified object and tried to shut the door on him.

"He squeezed me to the frame of the door," Lora testified. "He put the car quickly into gear and drove away. I fired my weapon and was released from the vehicle."

Arzu's family wasn't buying it.

"He's lying," said his daughter Katherine Arzu, 22. "He's making up a story. It doesn't make any sense."